Bomb under car seat kills Somali journalist

Somalis look at the smashed car in which a Somali journalist was killed by a bomb planted under his car in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, Saturday, June, 21. No group has claimed the responsibility the Assassination of Yusuf Keynan, the editor of Mustaqbal radio in Mogadishu, who died as he started his mined car to go to work in the morning, according to Abdinasir Mohamed Ali, a colleague of the murdered reporter.Associated Press

In this photo taken in 2010, Somali journalist Yusuf Keynan sits in radio station center in Kenya. No group has claimed the responsibility the Assassination of Yusuf Keynan, the editor of Mustaqbal radio in Mogadishu, who was killed as a bomb planted under his car exploded as he attempted to travel to work in the morning, a colleague of the murdered reporter has said.Associated Press

Associated Press

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A journalist in Somalia's capital says a bomb planted under the car seat of a Somali reporter exploded and killed him.

Abdinasir Mohamed Ali said that his colleague at Mustaqbal radio, Yusuf Keynan, died when the bomb exploded as he started his car to travel to work in Mogadishu on Saturday, June 21.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

Keynan is the first journalist murdered in Somalia this year following a series of attacks against journalists over the past two years. Targeted attacks against journalists were common in 2012 and 2013, but most of those murders were carried out by gunmen.

Somalia is one of the most dangerous countries to be a journalist, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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